From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54608 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David S Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What is difference between 'R' and 'r' marks Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:18:59 -0500 Organization: I Yam What I Yam Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <76vfq5xrut.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067620763 28016 80.91.224.253 (31 Oct 2003 17:19:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3149@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 31 18:19:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AFcvh-0002iQ-00 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:19:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFcva-0007ox-00; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:19:14 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AFcvW-0007os-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:19:10 -0600 Original-Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [192.160.51.75]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901DF3A004C for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:19:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9VHJ7bY019884 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:19:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9VHJ6v4010624 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:19:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from blackbird.mitre.org (129.83.3.43) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 4807506; Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:19:02 -0500 Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-Reply-To: <76vfq5xrut.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> (Jake Colman's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:02:50 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, cygwin32) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54608 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54608 >>>>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:02:50 -0500, Jake Colman said: > If I read a message it is marked with 'R'. If I press 'd' it is > marked with 'r'. Is there any practical difference between the two > marks? > Not really. >From the Gnus info: All the following marks mark articles as read. `r' These are articles that the user has marked as read with the `d' command manually, more or less (`gnus-del-mark'). `R' Articles that have actually been read (`gnus-read-mark'). `O' Articles that were marked as read in previous sessions and are now "old" (`gnus-ancient-mark'). [...] So the only difference between r and R is really a visual cue to you as to whether you read or just marked an article in the current session. Either will show up as O in subsequent ones. -- Dave Goldberg david.goldberg6@verizon.net